The changes featured in SDC’s “Smarter Moves” report also include:
- The Department for Transport, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to sponsor an ICT Enabled Sustainable Mobility Innovation and Growth Team.
- Work with the Highways Agency to enforce motorway speed limits through the use of average speed camera technology
- Encourage the use of average speed camera technology to better enforce urban speed limits
- Accelerate actions to enable the widespread introduction of voluntary Intelligent Speed Adaptation technology, setting out a clear timetable for implementation of the recommendations made in the joint Commission for Integrated Transport/Motorists' Forum report.
- Consider further trials of Intelligent Speed Adaptation, fitting units to ministerial and other Government Car and Despatch Agency vehicles. If successful, the technology should be rolled out to all government, public sector and public transport operator's vehicles.
- Monitor and report on the level of public awareness of the benefits of eco-driving and further raise awareness through the "Act on CO2" campaign.
- Ensure all public sector employees who drive a vehicle as part of their job are given eco-driver training.
- Put in place actions to accelerate the growth of car clubs, working with Carplus and local authorities to identify and overcome barriers to growth.
- Department for Transport to encourage more efficient road network utilization through better use of parking controls, tolls and road pricing.
- The Department for Transport to revise transport funding arrangements to allow local authorities increased flexibility between revenue and capital funding.
Car enthusiasts all over the UK think that these measures are narrow-minded and that the SDC has a anti-motoring attitude. Considering the measures they proposed, UK’s drivers might just be right this time. You can see the full report below.
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